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by **td11** » Fri May 08, 2009 00:41:14

konami code on facebook, do it. anything happen?

yeah if you didn't figure it out, just click your mouse after entering it

it's up up down down left right left right b a enter, btw

by **Wizlah** » Fri May 08, 2009 00:48:20

I'm getting obsessive-compulsive about hyphenation. Or maybe just obsessively compulsive. It's fucking my head.

by **Bucky** » Fri May 08, 2009 06:58:44

Here's one I've been languishing over lately.

I've always been a staunch defender of proper use of apostrophes when assembling a plural. Actually more of a ridiculer of those who insert an apostrophe when one is not called for.

"Hundred's of Car's in Stock Every Day" !!

But now I find myself in lots of use cases where I need to pluralize an acronym or abbreviation- things where there's no proper plural when there typically would be (like a word ending in a vowel). I hate myself for using an apostrophe, but it's just not rights without one. Take "pro", for example, a typically accepted shortening of "professional".

Is it:

A) "Time to let the pros take over"!
B) "Time to let the pro's take over"!

I'm so conflicted.

by **MrsVox** » Fri May 08, 2009 07:03:20

CFP wrote:Found out earlier that I'm one of those O- weirdos. Also weird I didn't know my blood type until I was almost 19, but w/e.

Me, too. Vox is waiting for me to become a serial killer (the majority are o neg).

Before we moved, the vampires (aka the red cross) were calling weekly to get me to donate. Now they don't have our number.

by **phatj** » Fri May 08, 2009 08:37:36

Bucky wrote:Here's one I've been languishing over lately.

I've always been a staunch defender of proper use of apostrophes when assembling a plural. Actually more of a ridiculer of those who insert an apostrophe when one is not called for.

"Hundred's of Car's in Stock Every Day" !!

But now I find myself in lots of use cases where I need to pluralize an acronym or abbreviation- things where there's no proper plural when there typically would be (like a word ending in a vowel). I hate myself for using an apostrophe, but it's just not rights without one. Take "pro", for example, a typically accepted shortening of "professional".

Is it:

A) "Time to let the pros take over"!
B) "Time to let the pro's take over"!

I'm so conflicted.

If you don't write the singular as "pro'" I don't think you would write the plural as "pro's".

by **TenuredVulture** » Fri May 08, 2009 08:41:36

Bucky wrote:Here's one I've been languishing over lately.

I've always been a staunch defender of proper use of apostrophes when assembling a plural. Actually more of a ridiculer of those who insert an apostrophe when one is not called for.

"Hundred's of Car's in Stock Every Day" !!

But now I find myself in lots of use cases where I need to pluralize an acronym or abbreviation- things where there's no proper plural when there typically would be (like a word ending in a vowel). I hate myself for using an apostrophe, but it's just not rights without one. Take "pro", for example, a typically accepted shortening of "professional".

Is it:

A) "Time to let the pros take over"!
B) "Time to let the pro's take over"!

I'm so conflicted.

It's a. Plurals simply have nothing to do with apostrophes.

by **Bakestar** » Fri May 08, 2009 08:49:38

Is momadance OK?

by **phatj** » Fri May 08, 2009 08:52:20

TenuredVulture wrote:It's a. Plurals simply have nothing to do with apostrophes.

More to the point, pro is not a contraction.

by **Bill McNeal** » Fri May 08, 2009 08:56:03

Bakestar wrote:Is momadance OK?

No, but that would have been my response before he revealed his plans for last night.

by **Wizlah** » Fri May 08, 2009 09:18:56

phatj wrote:
TenuredVulture wrote:It's a. Plurals simply have nothing to do with apostrophes.

More to the point, pro is not a contraction.

ding.

by **momadance** » Fri May 08, 2009 09:54:53

Bill McNeal wrote:
Bakestar wrote:Is momadance OK?

No, but that would have been my response before he revealed his plans for last night.

My boss saved me from disaster. Thank God. Shockingly, he usually encourages these things.

by **CalvinBall** » Fri May 08, 2009 09:58:42

How so?

by **Grotewold** » Fri May 08, 2009 09:59:23

You call it your boss?

by **momadance** » Fri May 08, 2009 10:04:02

Grotewold wrote:You call it your boss?

by **momadance** » Fri May 08, 2009 10:04:35

CalvinBall wrote:How so?

He took me to a different bar.

by **CalvinBall** » Fri May 08, 2009 10:07:48

Runny nose/nasty coughing up crap has been going on for about 3 weeks now. I rarely have allergies so I am not sure if it is that.

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Fri May 08, 2009 10:52:09

if i had another bag of weed i would roll it up i would light it up i would pass it around

FRIDAY YO

by **momadance** » Fri May 08, 2009 10:58:14

Houshphandzadeh wrote:if i had another bag of weed i would roll it up i would light it up i would pass it around

FRIDAY YO

I'm down.

by **CalvinBall** » Fri May 08, 2009 11:38:09

Never smoked pot, never will. But I am down with it being FRIDAY.

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Fri May 08, 2009 11:40:14

we got three alive right here three alive

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